More airlines remove first class, airfares on the rise, Boeing revises cockpit emergency procedures
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What we’re reading: AA’s new iPhone app, domestic airfares rise, Shanghai Air to leave Star Alliance
American launches new iPhone app, domestic airfares rise in first quarter, Shanghai Air to leave Star Alliance
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The most important facet of the proposed DOT rules, from my point of view, is the section dealing with airline ticket pricing and fees. This rule will change the way you buy airline tickets so that you can compare the true costs of various flight options.
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For those of you who don’t keep track of how strong (or weak) the U.S. dollar is against the euro (or other world currencies), there’s good news for Americans. The dollar is now under $1.20 to the euro.
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The airlines have created one of the business world’s most complex pricing structures. Maintaining fee obscurity was a virtue as far as airline profits go, but a vice when the goal is consumer transparency.
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The major legacy carriers all announced, seemingly within minutes of each other that they will add surcharges ranging from $10 to $30 for one-way domestic flights on almost every day between June 10 and August 22. Why?
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The most volatile airline ticket prices in America are between Atlanta and Las Vegas, a new survey by Yapta has found. Fares between those cities changed an astonishing 2,472,916 times since the beginning of the year. That’s roughly once every six seconds.
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Looks like summer airfares are continuing to move upward, according to Priceline’s Airfare Index for the week of May 17. Priceline’s air index uncovers the 30 air routes where fares have either increased or decreased the most compared to the previous week.
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There is a battle brewing between airlines and their main GDS distribution systems. There are two main facets to this struggle. Airlines don’t want to pay anyone any commissions for any transactions (their intent is to have sales agents pay them for access to fares) and they want to keep fees hidden from consumers and maintain control of prices, doling them as out, as needed by consumers, rather than allowing a robust competition between airlines on total cost.
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Now that Spirit Airlines has done the unthinkable, announcing plans to begin charging for carry-on bags this summer — that’s right, carry-on bags — the question everyone seems to be asking is: What’s next?
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